• wikipedia

    From Oleg Smirnov@os333@netc.eu to alt.russian.z1,talk.politics.misc,soc.culture.china,alt.politics,soc.culture.russian on Sun Aug 10 11:30:39 2025
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    <https://tinyurl.com/24pxr4nk> webpronews.com

    Elon Musk Agrees to Ban Wikipedia from X Community Notes ..

    ...

    The very idea of Wikipedia implies it shall be internally
    contradictory, by design. In different articles, some event
    or person might be covered with different assessments. There
    also might be notable discrepancies between versions of the
    same article in different languages. Discordance is natural
    when content is created with the participation of various
    and many enthusiasts/activists, whose experiences, cultural
    backgrounds and perspectives differ. Guidelines to cite and
    refer to reputable / neutral sources surely serve to ennoble
    it, but it cannot eliminate discrepancies, because sources
    seeming reputable for some groups of Wikipedia enthusiasts
    may not seem so for other groups. Such an internally
    controversial product nevertheless might have value as sort
    of great exhibition of existing - accepted or suggested -
    facts, beliefs and narratives, and diversity of views and
    stands even contributes to popularity. But, it's definitely
    not fit to be "a judge" in disputes or a fact-checking tool.

    Moreover, the above is written in the idealistic assumption
    that the Wikipedia content is created by honest, sincere and
    selfless enthusiasts. In real life, as soon as something
    enthusiasm-driven becomes popular, there are powers seeking
    to adapt it for serving their particular interest. Wikipedia
    was not an exception. Still, for pretty big number of topics
    it remains to be a useful source of information. However, it
    has become increasingly biased and unreliable, even fiction-
    bearing when it comes to *sensitive topics, somehow related
    to cultist and political indoctrination, to various kinds of
    present and past conflicts.
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